Nurmagomedov has spoken out about his situation in the UFC, bemoaning his lack of a title shot despite his remarkable winning run.

But despite his perfect 24-0 record and eight-fight win streak in the UFC, Ferguson can boast a nine-fight unbeaten run in the promotion, and said he prefers to just get on with the job of winning fights.

“All b******t aside, the guy is a whiny b***h,” he said.

“He can whine as much as he wants to.

“Instead of people saying, ‘you need to go for the belt,’ or, ‘you need to do this, you need to do that’, me, I’m waving my little finger in the air and I keep moving forward.

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Nurmagomedov’s last outing earned him rave reviews as he demolished Michael Johnson at UFC 205, but Ferguson says he saw enough in that performance to convince him that he’d have the edge if they met inside the Octagon.

“He got smacked up a couple times like I thought he was going to,” Ferguson said.

“But when you put all your chips in the striking, you’re going to get exactly what Michael Johnson did, which is absolutely nothing off the bottom.

“He didn’t practice – not one time probably – getting up. He probably thought in his head that he was going to knock him out, but that’s not what I do. That’s what a lot of older fighters do, just get one-dimensional.

"You can't really be one-dimensional in this fight game. If you are, you're going to get knocked out or you're going to get finished. Either that, or you're just going to take a lot of damage and you're just not going to be able to last very long.

"And Michael Johnson couldn't put it together. I don't know, Khabib did good. I'll give that to him, but he ain't going to go five rounds with me. That's for sure. That dude only wants to go one and out."

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Nurmagomedov said he wants that fight with Ferguson next, but ‘El Cucuy’ hinted he could find himself in a different matchup, after a planned bout against an unnamed opponent for the upcoming UFC 208 event failed to come to fruition.

"Man, I was excited. I was stoked about it," Ferguson said.

"I was like, who's the opponent? And I can't really get too much into detail, but the person who was supposed to sign on the dotted line was a little too injured from his last bout, I guess, and had to wait a couple more months.

"I'm not going to say names, but all I'm going to say is you're going to have an interesting fight coming up pretty soon.

"I'm not sure what they have planned, lined up, trying to get me or somebody. But we'll keep our fingers crossed and we'll see what's up."

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